Supply and cities

[kviiri]

Ok, so in WWW videos we've learned that a country occupying at least half of a state's provinces will receive supply for that state. Does this treat all provinces equally, or are cities worth more (EDIT: In regards to the 50% limit, that is) than scarcely populated woodlands?

EDIT: in other words, if I hole my troops up in a city, and the rest of the state is occupied by my enemies, will they or won't they receive supply for the city?

 

[Alex_brunius]

From the Development Diary on supply:

The supply level of an area are decided by the following things:

• A local scripted value. Think of it as base infrastructure that can't really be destroyed (will be basically 0 in mountains and deserts and pretty high in densely populated Europe).
• Any big cities/victory points will increase it. So holding out in these is possible.
• Local resistance movement activity in occupied territory disrupting things for you (we'll have a separate diary on these guys)
• Incoming supplies from neighbor area. We trace back to capital, or if capital is cut off the next best area. The supply you get is limited by the lowest infrastructure on your route (also possibly sabotaged by resistance), including your own infrastructure level. So for a player what you need to care about is what the bottleneck is, because that is what is going to affect how troops on the front fare. There is also some guaranteed spillover from neighbors to soften the transitions between bad and good areas (simulating that even if decent railway lines stop at a point it's feasible to transport some distance with trucks or horses etc).

 

[kviiri]

Well yeah, except it doesn't really answer my question. So a city increases a state's supply, but the supply only goes to the country controlling at least 50% of the state. So is holding out in a city actually possible, if surrounded on all sides? Losing all other provinces would mean the enemy gets the supply of the city, right?

 

[Alex_brunius]

Okay, I see. So your question was if cities are worth more the scarsley populated woodlands to determine who gets to occupy the state, not from a supply point of view?

I guess we need a Pdx responsible to answer that.

 

[kviiri]

Yeah, sorry I've been quite bad at wording my questions lately.

 

[Lifthrasil]

Yeah, sorry I've been quite bad at wording my questions lately.

Best reword your original post by editing it!
So PDX staff will see that this question is still unanswered!